Read XML from URL 

XOM (XML Object Model) is a tree based java API for processing XML by taking the best ideas from SAX and DOM. It is simple, fast and easy to use. This requires the library xom-1.2.7.jar to be in classpath. The following example shows reading an XML document from a URL.

File Name  :   com/bethecoder/tutorials/xom/tests/ReadXMLFromURL.java  Author  :   Sudhakar KV Email  :   [email protected]

package com.bethecoder.tutorials.xom.tests; import java.io.IOException; import nu.xom.Builder; import nu.xom.Document; import nu.xom.Element; import nu.xom.ParsingException; import nu.xom.ValidityException; public class ReadXMLFromURL {   /**    * @param args    * @throws IOException     * @throws ParsingException     * @throws ValidityException     */   public static void main(String[] args) throws ValidityException, ParsingException, IOException {     Builder builder = new Builder();     //Reads and parses the XML     Document doc = builder.build("http://bethecoder.com/rss.xml");          //Get channel element     Element channel = doc.getRootElement().getChildElements("channel").get(0);          //Get description     String desc = channel.getChildElements("description").get(0).getValue();     System.out.println(desc);   } }